Knot or stop for check-row wires



(No Model.)

R. FARIES. KNOT 0R STOP FOR CHECK ROW WIRES. N0. 264,069.

Patented Sept. 12, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ROBERT FARIES, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

KNbT OR STOP FO'R CHECK-ROW WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,069, dated September 12, 1882.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, ROBERT Farms, 2. citizen of the United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Knots or Stops for Check-Row Wires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wires for check-row cornplanters in which the sections of wire are linked together by loops or hooks formed of and on the ends of the same; and,the object of my invention is to s curethe returned end and the main body of the wire, so-that the former cannot withdraw to release the joint, nor the latter draw through to close the loops. I attain this object by the device shown in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the two sections of wire B B linked together by loops at, and open rings A closed around the returned end 0 and the main wire B. Fig. 2 shows the ring A in section after beiugclosed down. Fig. 3 shows ring A in place. preparatory to being closed down. Fig. 4 shows a side view of ring A in place and partly closed down, with the wires B O in section. Fig. 5 is a side view of ring A before being applied, which maybe formed of stout wire or cast of malleable iron. In applying it. to use it is slipped over the two parts B O of the wire, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and hammered or swaged down to firmly clasp the two parts forming indentures in the wire, as shown in Fig. 2, to prevent their being withdrawn. When a strain is brought to bear on the wire tending to pull the sections apart I an: aware that prior to inyinveution checkrow wires have been formed of sections of wire linked together by loops formed on the ends of the sections, and loose collars slipped over the two parts of the wire. I am also aware that rings have been swaged down on check-row cords to form the stops, and that the returned nds, without theloops so formed being hooked together, have been secured to the main body of same by rings swaged down on the two parts. I therefore do not claim thennbroadly;

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a check-row wire formed ofsectionslinked togetherin themannershown, of the ringA, closed down on the two parts B G to form indenturesin each part, thereby securing the returned end of the loop to the main wire and thetwo sections together, as herein set forth.

ROBERT FARIES.

Witnesses:

J 013m B. BIXBY, OHAs. P. HOUSUM. 

